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Diminished Democracy? Portland Radio News/Public Affairs After the Telecom Act of 1996, Rebecca Webb
The Fantastic Machine, Nathaniel M. Weinham
CE-QUAL-W2 Water Quality and Fish-bioenergetics Model of Chester Morse Lake and the Cedar River, Vanessa I. Wells
Self-Efficacy and Drinking with Friends: An Investigation into the Drinking Behaviors of Japanese College Students, Staci Jean Wendt
The Woods Were Never Quiet, Marie-Monique Wentzel
The Benson Blocks, Suvi Wesa, Evan Abramowitz, Kyle Brown, Jennifer Hanna, Chris Longfield, and Karen Reeves
Wherefore by Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis of Mercy Corps' Peaceful Communities Initiative in Central Asia, John Thomas Westerman
Improving Hypothesis Testing Skills: Evaluating a General Purpose Classroom Exercise with Biology Students in Grade 9., Michael Gregg Wilder
Analysis and Characterization of Debris Flows in November, 2006, Mount Adams, Washington., Kendra Justine Williams
Factoring Semiprimes Using PG2N Prime Graph Multiagent Search, Keith Eirik Wilson
Total Mercury in Stranded Marine Mammals from the Oregon and Southern Washington Coasts, Nathan J. Wintle
Black/White Health Disparities in the U.S. The Effect of Education over the Life-Course, Elizabeth Melissa Withers
Hierarchical Decision Modeling (HDM) Applied to Alternative Powertrain Automobile Purchase, Chenxi Yan, Jerry Bell, and Vera Sell
High Speed Wireless Networking for 60GHz, Candy Yiu
Now Accepting Applications Online: An Examination of Privacy Concerns, Explanations, and Control in Applicant Reactions to Internet-Based Selection Procedures, Clayton Alan Yonce
A Comparative Report of Portland State University’s Implementation of Blackboard and Desire2Learn, Byung Sung Yoon, Jared Nambwenya, Christophe Perrenoud, and Mel Cooper
Emotion Language and Emotion Narratives of Turkish-English Late Bilinguals, Melike Yücel Koç
ABC Enrollment & Transfer Center Proposal – Set III, Aron E. Yucha, Rafael Colon, Niharika Jeena, Marty Flansburg, and Jared Omulindi
Molecular Genetic Analysis of CRELD1 in Patients with Heterotaxy Disorder, Samaneh Zhian
Electronic Pillbox Logger for people with Parkinson's Disease, Beenish Zia
The Anatomical Renaissance, Chloe Zimmerman
High Resolution Measurements near a Moving Contact Line using µPIV, Jeremiah D. Zimmerman